All 5 Uses of
preoccupied
in
Catch-22
- Wearing a menacing and preoccupied scowl, General Dreedle moved to the full-length mirror in his office and stared at his stocky reflection.†
Chpt 4 *
- At unguarded moments his hard and sullen face slipped into a somber, preoccupied look of defeat and frustration.†
Chpt 21
- Deep otter-brown lines of preoccupation etched themselves permanently into his careworn face and gave him a harried look of sobriety and mistrust.†
Chpt 24
- Each time he caught himself worrying he made himself remember that Orr could do everything and broke into silent laughter at the picture of Orr in the raft as Sergeant Knight had described him, bent forward with a busy, preoccupied smile over the map and compass in his lap, stuffing one soaking-wet chocolate bar after another into his grinning, tittering mouth as he paddled away dutifully through the lightning, thunder and rain with the bright-blue useless toy oar, the fishing lineā¦†
Chpt 28
- Milo observed with a preoccupied smile and started toward the door as though in a spell.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(preoccupied) busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done